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21 Mar 2016, 1:35 pm by Skier & Associates
The Alabama prison system is a powder keg that will end up either creating a strain of “super-criminals” who only know the violence necessary to survive in the system, or the system will implode and regress into chaos (a process that has already begun with the recent riots at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.) [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 1:35 pm by Skier & Associates
The Alabama prison system is a powder keg that will end up either creating a strain of “super-criminals” who only know the violence necessary to survive in the system, or the system will implode and regress into chaos (a process that has already begun with the recent riots at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.) [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 5:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
When the wind down took longer than expected, I wrote:For my part, the Central Unit's economic role in the prison system's ag business was one of the reasons I favored it as a prime target for closure. [read post]
The ACLU has joined forces with a bipartisan group of legislators and advocates to support a bill that would make great strides toward easing the strain of Maryland’s overpopulated prison system. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 5:09 pm
But one recent missive from a Colorado prisoner offers some of the best advice we've ever heard for negotiating a long stretch in the state prison system. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 11:00 am by Glenn Reynolds
GOVERNMENT: The Role of the Prison Guards Union in California’s Troubled Prison System. “California spends approximately $9 billion a year on its correctional system, and hosts one in seven of the nation’s prisoners. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 10:45 am
Then both state and federal legislators must work with prisoners’ rights advocates, prisoners, prosecutors, and judges to reform the system so that its inherent biases are erased and prisoners with physical disabilities are not put in jeopardy simply because of their disability. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 4:05 am
This law reform piece includes a section placing the origins of prison systems in Africa in colonialism. [read post]
29 Jul 2013, 10:22 pm by Vishnu S
 Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2 Introduction My motivations for writing a thesis on this topic are that the prison system Read more... [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 4:00 pm by David Shapiro, National Prison Project
Today, the Florida Senate averted disaster by voting down a proposal to create the largest private prison system in America. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 7:29 am
Prison Racism and the Myth of a Colorblind Justice System | Civil Liberties | AlterNetBy Tolu Olorunda and Michelle Alexander, CounterPunchPosted on June 9, 2010, Printed on June 10, 2010http://www.alternet.org/story/147157/Quite belatedly, I came to see that mass incarceration in the United States had, in fact, emerged as a stunningly comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social [read post]
26 Feb 2006, 3:34 pm
[JURIST] California Youth and Adult Corrections Secretary Roderick Hickman [official profile] said over the weekend that he is resigning his post after a two year attempt to reform California's prison system. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 3:30 am by SpearIt
The issue Frank raises is critical in the age of mass incarceration, where state and federal penal systems rely on prison as a mainstay punishment for felony crimes. [read post]
2 Apr 2017, 10:15 am by Ruben Sindahl
The report, which was written by the two rights organizations Prison Reform Trust [website] and Zahid Mubarak Trust [website], concludes that the system for handling complaints for discrimination is neither fair nor impartial, and does not have the confidence of prisoners. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 10:02 am by Carolina Bracken
Despite the passion and dedication of individuals, this ethos has yet to infiltrate the prison system itself. [read post]
16 Jan 2010, 6:39 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas was the last state to approve a prison phone system, which is widely acknowledged as beneficial for maintaining family ties and facilitating successful reentry. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 8:48 pm
| ajc.comThe prison system began lifting lock downs at four institutions and returning the facilities to normal operations Wednesday and inmate said they were ending their protest for now and reporting to work assignments. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 12:27 pm by Amy Fettig, National Prison Project
Women’s experience of prison as a place of abuse, violence, psychological deprivation and physical harm is both a human rights tragedy and an indictment of our justice system. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 11:38 am by Sung Un Kim
The ACLU found that 16 percent of the national prison population is age 50 and older with California, Texas, Florida and the federal prison system having the highest number of such prisoners. [read post]